From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
To: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
Cc: Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Regexp with comment character of buffer
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2024 19:19:44 +0000 [thread overview]
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On Tuesday, August 13th, 2024 at 7:13 AM, Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Aug 2024 at 00:50, Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com wrote:
>
> > Is the space part of 'comment-start'. It is difficult to say from the code.
>
>
> You do not have to say that from code. You activate a buffer and do an
> M-: comment-start RET, and look at the result in the echo area. Repeat
> with a different mode.
>
> Alternatively, you read Emacs sources, see that many but not all modes
> set comment-start with a trailing space.
comment-start should not introduce a trailing space for convenience, but added
later, so users can start writing the comment after a space.
> > Can I just use `comment-start` without trimming it ?
>
>
> Since you’re using string-to-char which is documented to return only
> the first character of the input string, it does not matter if you
> trim the original string beforehand.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-08-12 19:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-08-12 10:08 Regexp with comment character of buffer Heime
2024-08-12 11:03 ` Yuri Khan
2024-08-12 11:41 ` Heime
2024-08-12 12:26 ` Yuri Khan
2024-08-12 12:36 ` Heime
2024-08-12 17:11 ` Yuri Khan
2024-08-12 17:50 ` Heime
2024-08-12 19:13 ` Yuri Khan
2024-08-12 19:19 ` Heime [this message]
2024-08-12 19:22 ` Heime
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